need help

[Gene Czarcinski]

I am not adverse to doing some coding to get functionality I want. The BZ
report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510253 asks for an
enhancement to NetworkManager to support specifying a DHCP hostname using the
NetworkManager system-settings editor.  Unfortunately for me, the editor is
written using glade.

While I played a little with glade when it first came out, the current glade
implementation is very different.  I am not about to manually edit the glade
files to add the functionality.

Can someone give me some "hints" as to how to approach modifying the the
editor to add the functionality?  That is, how should I run glade to change
the gui and then what type of code do I need to add?

I am sure it will be simple and obvious once I do it but right not it looks
like a really steep hill to climb.

Gene
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[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:08 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I am not adverse to doing some coding to get functionality I want. The BZ
> report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510253 asks for an
> enhancement to NetworkManager to support specifying a DHCP hostname using the
> NetworkManager system-settings editor.  Unfortunately for me, the editor is
> written using glade.

Updated the bug; but before we start tossing in widgets, is it
sufficient to push the system's current persistent hostname out to the
DHCP server?  Or are there really cases where the name pushed up to the
server is not the system's persistent hostname?

Dan

> While I played a little with glade when it first came out, the current glade
> implementation is very different.  I am not about to manually edit the glade
> files to add the functionality.
>
> Can someone give me some "hints" as to how to approach modifying the the
> editor to add the functionality?  That is, how should I run glade to change
> the gui and then what type of code do I need to add?
>
> I am sure it will be simple and obvious once I do it but right not it looks
> like a really steep hill to climb.
>
> Gene
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[Gene Czarcinski]

On Monday 02 November 2009 16:18:57 Dan Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:08 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > I am not adverse to doing some coding to get functionality I want. The
> > BZ  report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510253 asks for an
> > enhancement to NetworkManager to support specifying a DHCP hostname using
> > the NetworkManager system-settings editor.  Unfortunately for me, the
> > editor is written using glade.
>
> Updated the bug; but before we start tossing in widgets, is it
> sufficient to push the system's current persistent hostname out to the
> DHCP server?  Or are there really cases where the name pushed up to the
> server is not the system's persistent hostname?
>

Unfortunately, using the system's persistent hostname (from
/etc/sysconfig/hetwork) does not appear sufficient ... see the BZ report.

Gene
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